That is very kind and generous of you ,I'm sure the recipients will be very pleased to receive that delicious honey .
I wouldn’t risk it. I have a colony building brace comb beneath the fondant tub, but as it’s on double brood, they have plenty of space to store food.
Thanks, that's what I was thinking. This was a split I got from a friend early August and they didn't manage to fill a super as the weather was so poor and were fed syrup from September right through to the beginning of November (when we had all that weird warm weather!). Fondant went on end of November and has been replenished a few times as we've had constant wind and rain and the hive has never felt particularly heavy at any point! Greedy bees maybe.
Yes, they just fill any empty space with comb.
Stan mowed the lawns this afternoon.
I was going to do a first cut but helped my neighbour to pull a weeping willow tree upright (nearly) it has been gradually leaning further and further over and was almost horizontal ...getting on for 30 years in the ground and was planted by his late wife. It was restricting access over the shared area of our close and either had to be cut down or pulled upright. It had been sorely neglected and there was two tonne bags of dead wood we removed . Then two hours of pushing, pulling and bracing and it's now up to about 75 degrees - I finally finished about 7.00pm having incinerated all the deadwood - my fitbit tells me 11000 steps and just under 4000 calories - my arms and back rather confirm it ! I was hoping to get the grass cut but ran out of time and energy ... now it's been hissing down so that's probably put paid to it tomorrow. It's going to be ankle high at this rate ....We still have water running through the orchard and a few other places. It was starting to dry out after a few days without rain, but this afternoon the heavens opened once again
James
She's a beauty.
If the roof has some insulation it will prevent the absorption to a greater degree
I make my roof coverings from 18” DPC and haven’t had a problem with overheating but my latest roofs do have 1” PIR in them.
I’m stimulative feeding thick syrup on strong colony’s, a little bit at a time they won’t store it but use it for brood rearing pollen frames will get added in a weeks time.
